Kant

The unornamented, white facades of AdolfLoos's urban, residential designs are often presented as the visual evidence that connects Loos and his architecture with the architectural principles of the Modern Movement. Loos's Villa Muller, completed in 1930, has been at the center of many scholarly discussions of his "Modern" tendencies. The Villa Muller is the most developed example ofLoos's residential designs and is considered by many to be the crowning masterpiece of his career. Due to this villa's prominent status, it will be analyzed and discussed alongside Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, and Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, to illustrate how each architect addressed the issues of living in a modern city. Commissioned and built contemporaneously with the Villa Savoye and the Villa Tugendhat, Loos's Villa Muller provides an ideal comparison of his work in relation to the emerging High Modernist aesthetic and theories. This chapter explores these aesthetic similarities, but also delves inside each structure to gain an understanding of each architect's conception of the modern home.